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Reconstruction:Old Ossetic/Allōn

This Old Ossetic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Ossetic

Etymology

From Proto-Ossetic *Allānʉ, from Proto-Scythian *Aryānu, from Proto-Iranian *ÁryānaHm, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Áryas.

Proper noun

*Allōn[1]

  1. (land) of the Aryans or Iranians, Eran

Descendants
  • Ossetian: аллон (allon, “a legendary ancient people”)[2][3]
  • → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕅𐔴 (al'e, “elder”)
  • → Bats: ა̄ლე̆ (ālĕ, “lord”)[4]
  • → Chechen: э̄ла (eela, “prince”)[4]
  • → Ingush: аьла (äla, “prince, chieftain”)[2][4]
  • → Mingrelian: ალანი (alani, “Karachay; daring fellow, hero”)[2]

References
  1. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000), “*ari̭a- , *āri̭a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, pages 222-224
  2. Абаев, В. И. (1958), “allon”, in Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow, Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 47–48
  3. Kim, Ronald (2003), “On the historical phonology of Ossetic: the origin of the oblique case suffix”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 123, issue 1, →DOI, pages 60, 62
  4. Thordarson, Fridrik (2009) Ossetic Grammatical Studies (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte; 788), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 26
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